Kabul | Mirror of the Sky: Flipping the Entire Sky Upside Down

A circular stainless steel mirror, approximately ten meters in diameter, with its concave side facing up and slightly tilted, mounted on a minimalist stand. Because it is a concave mirror, it inverts and compresses the image of the sky into a circle; cloud movement is accelerated within it, and buildings at the edges are distorted. When approaching, viewers will see themselves suspended upside down in the sky within the mirror. The back is matte stainless steel, presenting a completely different character. The mirror surface is polished without any seams or distortions. The site is an open plaza or lawn, with no cluttered objects nearby to interfere with reflections. Shot on a sunny day with clouds, the sky in the mirror and the real sky are both captured in the frame. Avoid: mirror made flat, seams appearing on the surface, fences added to block access, cluttered background.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面直徑約十公尺的圓形不鏽鋼鏡,凹面朝上並略微傾斜,架在極簡的支架上。因為是凹面鏡,它把天空的影像倒轉並壓縮成一個圓,雲的移動在其中被加速、建築在邊緣被拉彎。走近時觀者會在鏡中看見自己上下顛倒地懸在天空裡。背面為霧面的不鏽鋼,呈現完全不同的性格。鏡面的拋光沒有任何接縫與扭曲。基地為開闊的廣場或草地,周圍不能有雜亂的物件干擾反射。晴天有雲的日子拍攝,鏡中的天空與現實的天空同時入畫。避免:鏡面做成平面、表面出現接縫、加設圍欄擋住走近的路徑、周圍背景雜亂。